Just as globalization has led to a growth of people moving across borders, the production, distribution and consumption of food is taking...

The FCI previously explained how naturalisation practices increasingly focus on the Super Citizen: newcomers seemingly need to display...

FCI has dedicated many articles to migration, but we have so far never addressed the question whether there is something as “a right to...

It is clear that with the emergence of digital and mobile technologies, our ideas regarding what citizen participation entails have...

It sometimes seems the real question for the 2020 presidential elections in the United States will not be migration, as was expected, but...

We’ve noted earlier that the two largest diasporas in the world are formed by Indians and Chinese. The creation of diasporas is not a...

Except for a few cases, all countries in the world have a provision in their citizenship law outlining the conditions for acquiring...

With most of the territory of the earth governed by one nation state or another, we saw last week that some of the world’s major...

Last month we reported on the sharp rise of the number of migrants from Central American countries to the US. Rather unexpectedly, there...

The reconceptualization of the passport is in full swing owing to geopolitical and technological developments. Future Citizen Institute...

As a follow up to our posts on Turkish investor citizenship and the recent elections in Turkey, we discuss recent scholarship by Susan...

In their analysis of the US Supreme Court’s decision from 27 June 2019 dealing with the legality of adding the question “Is this person a...

Last week Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) won the position of mayor of Istanbul by obtaining 54% of the votes – an...

When Islamic State (ISIS) announced the formation of a caliphate on 29 June 2014, it was clear that the citizenship status of those who...

In a policy brief prepared by the European Network on Statelessness last May, in preparation of the High-Level Political Forum of 9-18...

When discussing the important Tjebbes ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union last March, we promised to revisit the case...

The New York Times recently reported that in April, more than 109,000 people (often travelling as families) were apprehended at or near...

According to UN data, Asia is currently home to more than half the world’s population and 21 of the world’s largest cities are in Asia....

After the recent European Parliament elections, commentators concluded two things: the political centre, though much more scattered,...

Every year Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the European Union, publishes statistics on citizenship matters in the different EU member...